blimp

1(especially North American English)a small airship(= an aircraft without wings)

2(alsoColonel Blimp)(old-fashioned,British English,disapproving)an older person, especially an old army officer, with very old-fashioned political opinions

Word OriginFirst World War(in sense (1)): of uncertain origin. Sense (2) derives from the character invented by cartoonist David Low, used in anti-German or anti-government drawings before and during the Second World War.